Prof. Earth Sciences, researching past climate and ice sheet dynamics, Cardiff University, mother of two, love nature, my own views
Joined February 2015
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4 Mar 2025
In case it wasn’t obvious:
ALT Screenshot of Carrie Lears blue sky account @carolinelear.bsky.social
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Meanwhile..........Global Sea Ice........
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24 Jul 2024
There is no community agreement on the need to research this more @guardianscience
In fact, most polar scientists think these ideas are economically and practically unfeasible, environmentally dangerous, and have major governance and ethics issues!
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12 Jul 2024
Super chuffed to be promoted to Professor of Micropalaeontology @LES_UniBham. To my knowledge one of the first female Earth Science profs @ the university. Many thanks to my wonderful colleagues, friends, students and collaborators who’ve supported and inspired me on the journey.
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28 Jun 2024
Congratulations Dr @SlaterSophieM for a successful PhD viva on Earth’s greenhouse-icehouse transition! Huge thanks to @sindiarocks @EleanorHJohn @HelenCoxall for co-supervision, and @KirstyMEdgar @steveatearth for examining @CU_EARTH
ALT Carrie and Sophie smiling after Sophie’s viva. Sophie is holding a celebratory cake which is half green and half white. On the green part is a picture of Sophie standing in a greenhouse and on the white part@is a picture of Sophie in front of an igloo, to represent earth’s greenhouse- icehouse transition 34 million years ago when the Antarctic ice sheet became established.
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4 Apr 2024
A very exciting day here @CU_EARTH as we took delivery of our new @thermosci Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS! Thankfully the welsh weather was kind to us and we got all the pieces into the lab without a hitch.
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8 Mar 2024
One week left to submit applications...
Come work with me (@CU_EARTH) and @Faithatron (@kclgeography) on our @LR_Foundation funded project on disaster preparedness at the household level, in contexts where there are multiple, interrelated hazards.
20 Feb 2024
I'm recruiting a post-doc! Are you an interdisciplinary researcher with an interest in disaster preparedness?
Come and work with me at @CU_EARTH ⬇️
krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGne…
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6 Mar 2024
World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast. 35 years searching for the oldest forests and they were only 20 miles away! You live and learn. Great to work with @Censedgeol and @willmcmahon92 on this project. theguardian.com/science/2024…
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5 Mar 2024
Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?
It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer
A short thread (1/10)
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Carrie Lear (she/her) retweeted
5 Mar 2024
"Without more significant #climate action we expect to see a similar domino effect from the much faster changes in GhG concentrations caused by burning fossil fuels" - Prof. @CarolineLear
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15 Feb 2024
Just released my latest paper about the 'peri-column' on G-cubed! Introducing a new boron purification technique using pumped ion-exchange column chromatography. Cut down the process to 1.5 hrs for 12 samples🚀and limited TPBs to ~ 10pg B! #boronisotope agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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9 Jan 2024
Today @CELTIC_lab hosted a @GW4Alliance workshop at @CU_EARTH so much great (and often nerdy) science being discussed, excited to see new collaborations come from this! Great talks by @theFosterlab @CV_Ullmann @MichaelHenehan and others - thanks all!
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1 Jan 2024
2023 was the warmest year on record globally by a large margin. Another dark red stripe gets added, though I think I need a new colour.
#ShowYourStripes
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@CarolineLear: "This report doesn't just set out the urgent need to reduce CO2 emission to 0, but it also reminds policymakers that if they make decisions in an equitable way, we could see positive impacts build until we reach a beneficial tipping point for society & the planet"
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@cu_earth Professors @CarolineLear & Stephen Barker contributed to @GSI_Exeter's Global Tipping Points report, looking at interactions between tipping points and the potential for cascading tipping points.
6 Dec 2023
Thank you to everyone involved in producing the first Global Tipping Points Report. We have worked with over 200 authors from over 25 institutions globally.
Explore this informative, sobering & inspiring report - global-tipping-points.org/
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6 Dec 2023
It was great playing even a small role in this mammoth report (paleoclimate appears in section 1.5). But if you want to head straight to the “inspiring” part, check out section 4 on Positive Tipping Points in Technology, Economy and Society
6 Dec 2023
Thank you to everyone involved in producing the first Global Tipping Points Report. We have worked with over 200 authors from over 25 institutions globally.
Explore this informative, sobering & inspiring report - global-tipping-points.org/
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Carrie Lear (she/her) retweeted
6 Dec 2023
Thank you to everyone involved in producing the first Global Tipping Points Report. We have worked with over 200 authors from over 25 institutions globally.
Explore this informative, sobering & inspiring report - global-tipping-points.org/
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